The obvious one to me is the adjacent LessWrong-style rationality community, which as a whole took this pandemic at least as seriously as we did fairly early on, and wrote useful and prescient articles like this one on the credibility of the US CDC.
To me the shining example of this is Jacob Falkovich’s Seeing the Smoke, which somehow helped convince the UK to lockdown in March 2020.
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The obvious one to me is the adjacent LessWrong-style rationality community, which as a whole took this pandemic at least as seriously as we did fairly early on, and wrote useful and prescient articles like this one on the credibility of the US CDC.
To me the shining example of this is Jacob Falkovich’s Seeing the Smoke, which somehow helped convince the UK to lockdown in March 2020.